Weekly Analysis, 4 September 2010 - Wii Reclaims the Top Spot - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 September 2010 / 4,728 Views
Overview – The Wii reclaimed the top spot as sales increase on the release of Metroid: Other M while the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, DS, and PSP drop. Sales are down considerably year on year for the PS3 as the Slim was released one year ago. Metroid: Other M is this week’s top debut, debuting at the top.
Worldwide Hardware – Week on week sales is up for the Wii and down for every other system. For home consoles the Wii retakes the top spot as Xbox 360 sales continue to drop after the release of the new X360S model back in June. The PlayStation 3 is in third place; however it is only 40,000 behind the Wii. Handhelds are also down as the DS is down 10,000 and the PSP 17,000.
Year on year sales are up for the Wii and Xbox 360, while all other systems are down. The Wii is up 18,000 and Xbox 360 36,000. The PlayStation 3 is down 445,000 because the PS3 Slim launched exactly one year ago. Handhelds continue to be down about 1/3, as the DS drops 126,000 and the PSP 48,000.
After being ahead for 10 weeks the Xbox 360 has fallen to second place as sales drop 7%. The Wii has reclaimed first place as sales increased for a second straight week. The PlayStation 3 has remained relatively flat for the last 10 weeks.
Worldwide Software – Only one game debuted in the top 20 this week. Metroid: Other M debuts at number one with sales of 284,000. The game was released in all major regions with the majority of the sales in America. It sold 205,000 in America, 47,000 in Japan and 32,000 in EMEAA.
Two other games debuted in the top 50. Bleach: Heat the Soul 7 (PSP) debuted at number 30 with sales of 25,000 in Japan. Tom Clancy's HAWX 2 (X360) debuted at number 42 with sales of 16,000in EMEAA.
Rounding out the top 10 at positions two through five are Wii Sports with sales of 161,000, Wii Sports Resort with sales of 143,000, Mafia II for the Xbox 360 with sales of 114,000 and Mafia II for the PlayStation 3 with sales of 113,000. At positions six through ten are MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Ailu Mura (PSP) with sales of 91,000, Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) with sales of 82,000, Madden NFL 11 for the Xbox 360 with sales of 81,000, Madden NFL 11 for the PlayStation 3 with sales of 74,000 and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (PC) with sales of 71,000.
Overall software sales are a mix week on week. The Wii and DS are up 19% and 1% respectively. The PS3, X360 and PSP are down 8%, 7% and 25% respectively.
Year on year software sales are up for the Wii and PSP, up 7% and 10% respectively. The PS3, X360 and DS are down 24%, 5% and 20%.
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Why are people counting out the PS3 for this holiday?
Ps3 sales seem prety steady over the last 10 weeks
That's actually not so bad
Reach and Kinect will give 360 the top spot back for a few weeks when they hit, but once the holidays start Wii will reclaim a consistent #1 through the usual holiday boost in conjunction with Wii Party/Donkey Kong/Kirby.
hugs Wii
@WiiFan
You should look at the pre-order numbers. Other M ended with a pre-order number around 150K. Wii games if you look at the pattern usually sell 1.2X that number in their FW sales. So I expected FW sales to be around 180K-200K which is in line with what VGC has for the game. What was a pleasant suprise is the fact Other M sold more than Corruption the FW in Japan. I expected 25K-34K in that region; thought Others let me down a bit since I expected 34k-40K in that region as well!!
go Metroid...go Metroid GO!!! Really happy with Other M sales as this is probably my favorite Metroid game since the original Prime by Retro!!! So far Other M is above my expectations in sales for the game. Hopefully it will beat my expected LTD of 800K worldwide; but knowing Wii games and the piracy issue one can never be too sure!
I'm really surprised to see Other M not sell more in America. I haven't got my copy yet but it's been a while since I've bought a game on release day. Price drops are so quick, I may wait another week or two. Plenty to play and stay busy with for now. Can't wait for the crazy holiday numbers to start up again. New Carnival games can battle it out this season on PS3 and Wii. The boards should light up like crazy with shovel ware to come on all consoles this holiday.
Yep. The wii is climbing the holiday salesmountain. Will it top the XBox360?
360 still sold more in Europe and USA, it's just Japan that made the difference. You can say Xbox has 2 regions and Wii and PS3 have 3 regions. DAMN YOU JAPS!!!
Good Job Wii!!
Great for the Wii
Wii will lose next week due to Halo Reach and most likely a few weeks after that.
The holidays will be a battle between the Wii and 360 and I believe Kinect really looks like it is going to sell and take off while Move will not. Should be an interesting holiday coming up.
I wish we could still view charts like that on this site. But yeah, this is probably the only time I'll ever say that the Wii is only temporarily on top, as Reach launches next week (two weeks in terms of chart dates here). It's pretty surprising.
oh nice so other M gave the wii a 20K boost! (increase vs other's decrease).
domination will take a hit with Halo though :p
I have yet to open my other M copy... but I also have a free day tomorow =D
And so begins the Holiday Wii domination.
1st!
That's for the stupid ign fans! ;)
The Wii is back on top and i like that.
